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    Does Pfsense support Radius authentication for Wireless?

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      Izinyoka
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      I have had a search and cannot find a definite answer…
      Can you configure Pfsense to use a radius server to authenticate users connecting to the wireless interface?

      i don't see any configuration for a Radius server on the wireless interface configuration page, but at the bottom of the page, there is an option to enable IEEE802.1x authentication. But this option does't seem to make a difference.

      Thanks.

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        lsf
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        Backend only, you can modify the hostadp config generated from pfsense to allow such use.

        The file in question is /etc/inc/interfaces.inc (look for function interfaces_wireless_configure) and edit the config section that comes after:

        
                        case 'hostap':
                                if (isset($wlcfg['wpa']['enable'])) {
                                        $wpa .= <<
        

        This is the portion that takes all the variables set in the web GUI and creates the hostapd_"if-name".conf file. "man hostapd" for more information.

        -lsf

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